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Benjamin Mayo
Personal blog · benjaminmayo.co.ukprogramminghardware
Benjamin Mayo's personal blog at benjaminmayo.co.uk covers programming and hardware. Since 2012, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “MacOS Marzipan”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on Apple TV aerial screensaver videos, including a page for downloading the 1080p and 4K clips, and a test of how much Twitter activity comes from third-party apps. Commenters link them as references.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- MacOS Marzipan4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-09-25
- Watch All the Apple TV Aerial Video Screensavers (2015)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-04-18
- How Many People Use Twitter's Own Apps?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-07-24
What Hacker News says?
Apple TV has this as a screensaver option: http://benjaminmayo.co.uk/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-vide...
Comment linking /watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-video-screensavers
on “Google Earth Redesigned”Submitted MacOS Marzipan as a story · 233 points
HN discussionIf you want to download them all curl http://benjaminmayo.co.uk/scripts/apple-tv-screensavers.json | jq .[].assets[].url | xargs wget
Comment linking /scripts/apple-tv-screensavers.json
on “The Apple TV Aerial Video Screensavers”Submitted The Apple TV Aerial Video Screensavers as a story · 95 points
HN discussionThat's just wrong. According to a test – admittedly somewhat unscientific, but good enough for our purposes – done by developer Benjamin Mayo and vetted by TNW, third-party apps only contribute to ~25% of twitter's activity. Tweetbot is in the upper echelons of that 25%, but it's not even in the top 10 overall. I'm sure they do well, but they definitely don't have a monopoly. Sources: http://benjaminmayo.co.uk/how-m…
Comment linking /how-many-people-use-twitter-s-own-apps
on “Tapbots: Don't Panic”Submitted Watch All the Apple TV Aerial Video Screensavers (2015) as a story · 66 points
HN discussionI'm especially excited to get my hands on the new 4k Aerial screensaver videos. The 1080p ones are all easy to download: http://benjaminmayo.co.uk/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-vide...
Comment linking /watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-video-screensavers
on “The new Apple TV 4k”Submitted How Many People Use Twitter's Own Apps? as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Marzipan as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Marzipan as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted iOS Design Inconsistencies Across Apple's Apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developing for Apple Watch as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted iOS 13 Includes Detachable Popovers System for iPad as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Marzipan as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple Music First Impressions as a story · 1 points
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